Slowmotion gains maiden chase win

The Joseph O’Brien trained, J.P. McManus owned Slowmotion showed no ill effects from her disastrous chase debut in November when landing the Rushes Supervalu EBF (Mares) Beginners Chase at Naas today, on her second chase attempt, under jockey Barry Geraghty.

The daughter of Soldier Of Fortune was a first fence faller on chase debut at Wexford but today got to the line and, more importantly, finished a length and three parts n front of runner-up Elusive Ivy having outbattled that rival on the run-in.

Afterwards trainer O’Brien said “it was nice to win a chase with her and she seemed to jump fairly well although the loose horse wasn’t a big help.

“She had a tough race in Leopardstown (over hurdles in December) where there went at it the whole way, so we’ll give her a bit of time now before we go again.

“She can go up in trip and is versatile.”

By Tom Weekes, quotes from Gary Carson